Custody of the Eyes
$30.58
- Paperback
152 pages
- Release Date
20 September 2022
Summary
An unnamed woman—a mother—struggles to survive in the face of state repression, neighborhood surveillance, extreme weather, and familial control. Alienation and dire frustration mount as she navigates these challenges. Told through one side of an epistolary exchange, Custody of the Eyes presents letters bookended by dense ramblings by the mother’s son. He struggles to speak and write, spending most of his days in lockdown rearranging his “vessels,” hysterically laughing, drooling, wr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783956796067 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3956796063 |
| Author: | Diamela Eltit, Helen Lane, Ronald Christ |
| Publisher: | Sternberg Press |
| Imprint: | Sternberg Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 152 |
| Release Date: | 20 September 2022 |
| Weight: | 119g |
| Dimensions: | 179mm x 114mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Sternberg Press / Montana |
About The Author
Diamela Eltit
Diamela Eltit is a Chilean writer and artist. She began producing works during the Pinochet dictatorship, staging actions as part of the artist collective CADA and publishing her first novels, Lumperica and El Cuarto Mundo. She has received many literary prizes, including Chile’s National Prize for Literature in 2018. She is a Distinguished Global Professor of Creative Writing in Spanish at New York University.
Helen Lane (1917-2004) was a translator who worked primarily with French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish literature.
Ronald Christ is the cofounder of Lumen Books and SITE magazine and Professor Emeritus of English at Rutgers University.
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